Nonseparating rail connection



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Be it known that 1, Louis BELTRAD-[IN-Iitt citizen of the United States, residing at Ch l 'ca-go, in the county of- Cook and" State of Illinois, have invented certain'new and useful Improvements in a Nonsep'arating Rail Connection} and-I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clea-r and exact description of the i11vention, such as will. enable others skilled in the'artto'which'it appertains to make and use tlie'same. V j

The obj ect of the invention is to prov'i de'a rail joint or connection whi'chcan be operated and used without the assistance of fish platesy rail chairs or'like 'contrivances and which will adapt therail sections oromembers to be readily connected in series under such conditions that the only fastening means required are the spikes by which they are secured to the ties as in the ordinary practice; to provide a rail joint or connection which can readily beconstruoted as a part of the rail section; to provide a joint or connection which will effectually prevent separating or relative displacement of the adjoining rail ends; and to provide a means of connection between adjoining rail sections or members which can be operated to effect the interlock of the rail ends by tilting or inclining the loose rail, engaging the extremities of the sections or members by an enclwise movement and then dropping or lowering the elevated free end of the rail to its position upon the ties, so thatthe rail sections or members can be connected in series or consecutively'to provide for the progressive laying of the track and avoid returning to previously'positioned rail sections in order to complete theioperation of securing the same; andwitli these objects in View the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred em- '--bodiment is :shown in the accompanying tion which it assumes "drawing, wherein V a V v Figure 1 is a side view of a section of track rail wherein the members are constructed in accordance with the invention and showing the adjoining GHClS'IHtGIlOCkGd as in practice.

Figure 2 is a detail longitudinal sectional view of a oint showing the members in their normal or interlocked position.

.Figure' 3 is a side view showing the loose rail, or the rail member which is about to be app-liedor laid, arrangedin the tilted posiin order to effect the interlock.

tively of -ends;

about to be positioned is disposedin aninjlIQNSElARhTING mncommmm i TheeXti'emities-of each rail member shown indicated r cthe adjacent extremities 'of two adjoining stitut-ing an abrupt shoulder 17 for engage-v ment with acorrespondingly abrupt wall I 7 p ific tionp L t e S a 1 'Patented Apr. '18; 19212 App-hcationn'l edNovember aafi'e'ao. Serial'No. 425,461,

4 Figures 4 and oiare detail' views respecthe mating or com'p'lemental rail soc at 10 are provided with mating or compleenlental interlocking members spect1'vely at? 11 and 1-2- V and 'shown respece it vely in detail in Figures-4 and 5',- so "that "placement, the male'elem'enth'avingatongue 13 for reception by ase'at 141 ofthe other ele-. Vment, the terminal ofthe tongue-being'up- Y wardly'defleoted to providea nose 15 for en} w gagement wit-h a recess 16 at the inner end ofthe seat 14, the inner side of the nose .con-

of said recess. The under side of the tongue is convexly curved as indicated at 19 to lit the concavely curved. lower wall20' of the Y 7 seat, so that when the rail member which 'is olined or tilted position indicated in'Fig. 3, the nose or free end ofthe tongue 13 may be introduced into the seat 14: and moved longitudinally thereof until as the rail is gradually lowered toward a horizontal position upon'the'ties (not shown), the tongue" I slidesinwardly upon the concavedwall 20 of the seat and the nose 15 finds its position n engagement with the recess 16 with the shoulders 17 and '18 in opposing relation to lock the railends against longitudinal dis placement. 7

At the sides ofthe seat 14 and constituting the side walls thereof are cars 22, preferably of the rail web 23 and extending beyond the I end of the rail to overlap theside surfaces ofigfl the web ofthe adjoining rail member as indicated in Figure 1', the extremities of Said tate' their entrance between the'rail head a i I 24 and rail foot 25 as the rail member whichis' being applied (as shown in Figure 3) is swung fromv the inclined position to the position in alignment with the rail member which has alreadyfbeen posi tioned, preparatory to securing the rail memher to the ties by means of spikes as in the ordinary practice.

here may be successively'positionedandeach 7 f member as it is applied maybeinterlocked I V 7 formed by thickened or reinforced portions ifbo ears being'rotmded asi'ndicated to facili-Q terminally with the previously positioned member by disposing the end of the former in interlocking relation with the adjacent end of the previously laid member while the later applied member occupies the inclined or tilted position indicated in Figure 3, and when the tilted member has been swung downward into position upon the ties it may be securely fastened in the ordinary way by means of spikes, and the succeeding rail member applied to the free end thereof, so that the rail members successively positioned may be fastened as the work progresses and may be removed or taken up successively in the reverse order, and when interlocked the joints are transversely reinforced to guard against separation or distortion.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A joint for rails, one end of one'of the rails having ELVPIOJGOUOII with an arcuate lower edge wall extending from the unction at such end, the adjacent end of the complementary rail having a recess of similar shape to that of the projection to receive the said projection upon downward turning of the first mentioned rail after abutment of the proximate ends of said first and complemenin presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS BELTRAMINL Vitnesses:

ANGEL PIsonA, FUNso GIANOLI.

In testimony whereof I aitix my signature 

